I am back
I now have a design goal. Nasa has posted a 250K prize for
essentially a robotic way station capable of cracking 10kg
of O2 out of lunar regolith and having it handy for wayward
lunar suit occupants or explorers.

I will be at least prototyping a robot to accomplish prior
to beginning the engineering necessary to achieve weight,
power, and time constraints on the winning system. Even if
I do not win (and I must consider myself a dark horse) I
will learn a lot that will be of great use to production
lunox operators and lunar colonists resulting from huge
success with the CRV.

I will establish a formal project here and start posting
Process and Instrumentation Diagrams and protographs of the
conceptual prototypes as I get them layed out in the carport
or down on paper. This is going to be a lot of fun!

Incidentally, I am grateful that this site has been
developed by Steven Rainwater, et. al. and all of you
readers while I have been goofing off elsewhere on the
internet. This site is going to be incredibly useful as I
start serious prototyping and soldering necessary to
integrate the off-the-shelf and custom components of my
Lunox Waystation Wanderor ... LW^2? ... I will need to work
on a good acronym. Even if I do not win the prize, I might
be able to sell some solid engineering to somebody
contracting to NASA in a decade or two?

Anyway I am off to read the recentlog, scan the local site,
go gambling with my Dad for Father's day and finish my post
at Advogato (which now has a pointer to here). Later